Stenciling appliance.



' No. 843,920. PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

(3-, D. WHITE. STENOILING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTOE.

CHARLES D. WHITE, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ERNEST L. PORTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STENCILING APPLEANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. VVI-IITE, of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in stenciling Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

his invention relates to means for inking a brush that is used in connection with a stencil for marking purposes.

The invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient appliance for holding a supply of ink, permitting the brush to be suitably charged with ink, and to have its charge properly distributed through the tips of the brush-bristles before being applied to the stencil.

The invention consists in the improved appliance which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a stenciling appliance embodying my invention, the cover of the box being open. Fig. 2 represents a seetional view of the appliance in the condition shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view showing the box closed.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

hiyimp roved appliance comprises a rectangular box having a bottom 12 and side walls comprising a relatively low and narrow wall 13 and three wider or higher walls 14, projecting above the upper edge of the wall 13.

15 represents a pad of absorbent material, such as felt, resting on the bottom of the box and partly filling the same, said pad being adapted to absorb a quantity of ink. The side walls 14 project to a considerable height above the upper surface of the pad, as shown in the drawings.

The box is provided with a cover comprising a body portion 16 and flanges which include a relatively wide flange 17 and three narrower flanges 18. The wider flange 17 is connected to the narrower wall 13 of the box by hinge members, which, as here shown, include sockets 19 19, aflixed to the wall 13, sockets 20, formed on the wider flange 17, and a hinge-pintle 21, passed through said sockets.

22 represents an ink-distributing palette, which is preferably a thin piece of wood attached by screws 23 or otherwise to the inner surface of the body of the cover, the outer surface of the palette being substantially flush with the outer edges of the narrower flanges 18.

The described parts are so formed and proportioned that when the cover is open the palette 22 stands beside the pad 15, their upper surfaces being substantially flush with each other and separated only by the rela tively low side wall 13 and the corresponding portion of the wider flange 17. When the cover is closed, its body portion is seated on the higher side walls 14 of the box, the palette being thus supported above and out of contact with the pad. The three edges of the palette adjacent to the narrower flanges 18 are separated from said flanges by spaces which receive the upper edges of the wider side walls 14 of the box when the cover is closed.

When the cover is open, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a stenciling-brush, which may be held when not in use in a holder 24 at one end of the box, may be charged with ink by dabbing the ends of the bristles against the pad. The charge of ink, which is liable to be somewhat unevenly applied by this operation, may be distributed uniformly through the tips of the bristles by rubbing the brush over the palette 22, the latter being substantially flush with the pad, so that the brush may be readily transferred from the pad to the palette without liability of scraping contact with the wall of the box. When the cover is closed, the higher walls of the box support the cover with the palette out of contact with the pad. The narrower flanges 18 of the cover overlap the wider side walls 14 of the box, and at the same time the corresponding edges of the palette are in close proximity to the inner sides of the side walls 14. Hence joints are formed when the cover is closed, which reduce to the minimum the liability of the ink becoming dry and hard.

The box is preferably provided with ahandle 25.

I claim A stenciling appliance comprising a rectangular box having a side wall which is narrower than the other side walls, an ink-pad resting on the bottom of the box and partly filling the same, a rectangular flanged cover having a flange which is wider than the other flanges, and is hinged to the reduced wall of 1 surface of the palette being substantially [O the box, the body of the cover being adapted flush with the outer edges of the narrower to be seated on the wider walls of the box flanges.

with its narrower flanges overlapping said In testimony whereof I have affixed my wider Walls, and a palette secured to the inner signature in presence of two witnesses. side of the cover and separated at its edges CHARLES D. WHITE.

from the narrower flanges of the cover by Witnesses: spaces which receive the wider side walls of ARTHUR H. BROWN, the box when the cover is closed, the outer E. BATOHELDER. 

